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ohhhh budapest. you deserved so much more of my time instead of a scant 28 hours! if only i hadn’t done some bookings while half-asleep, if only i hadn’t gotten lost and wandered around the city for a couple hours, if only i hadn’t had to hang out in my suite and do laundry–we would have become so much better-acquainted! but, the suite i got to stay in was really cool and communist-looking. maybe that doesn’t even make sense. it had the world’s least comfortable couch (seat was 2.5 feet wide, back was maybe 6-8 inches high…), dark carpeting, wallpapers, 12 ft ceilings, and a set of incredibly beautiful 12ft tall doors!

budapest was different than the other former-communist places i’d been. for one, there were sex shops everywhere. bars open at 8 am, with people drinking. slightly dingy buildings, not restored like prague and krakow (and some with…